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Tour Details

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Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour

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Articles

  • So long, Bob Dylan (The Spectator) [5]
    • "It’s fairly clear we won’t see him again. This felt like a valediction."
  • Bob Dylan at Royal Albert Hall 14th November 2024 (KLOF Mag) [5]
    • "I cannot recall feeling the Royal Albert Hall more alive with restless anticipation minutes before the arrival of an artist. Neither can I think of a more joyous roar erupting when the main attraction shuffles onto the stage a few moments after his band start up."
  • Dylan is a Remarkably Bad Electric Guitar Player (The Spectator) [5]
    • "He was 81 then and it felt like it might be his last rodeo. Well, he’s 83 now and in Edinburgh seemed rather more energised."

Top News & Links

Our favorite Dylan-related stories and links

  • The World of Dylan 2025: Call for Papers (The TU Institute for Bob Dylan Studies) [10]
    • "We warmly welcome ideas focused on all aspects of Dylan’s music, performance, context, life, and legacy."
  • Tombstone Blues: The Midst of Wild Surrealism (Untold Dylan) [8]
    • "In the midst of their perception of invasion, some form of patriotism (The reincarnation of Paul Revere’s horse) is trying to be presented or resurrected. The war was presented as a moral patriotic endeavour by the country’s leaders."
  • The Gates of Eden – A Performance History Pt. 2 (Untold Dylan) [8]
    • "After performing ‘Gates of Eden’ live in 1965, there was a nine-year gap, taking us through to 1974, before Dylan again picked up the song, now already ten years old."
  • Bob Dylan: Prophet, Mystic, Poet (Peter Stone Brown Archives) [8]
    • "Prophet, Mystic, Poet is loaded with such revelations and as such is essential reading for any serious Bob Dylan fan. That said, the book is not without an agenda which is made clear from the start, which is to show not only how Judaic tradition and custom, but how much of what is commonly referred to as 'The First,' or 'Old Testament' informs a large part of Dylan’s work."
  • Bob Dylan Breaks Silence on 'Ridiculous' Rumour (Mirror) [5]
    • "But Dylan has rubbished the rumour, replying: 'Saw your reply. Just want you to know I’ve never told anybody not to make eye contact with me. That is just ridiculous. And the next time you see me please look straight into my eyes.'"

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Stories from the press

  • Dylan's Reagan Movie Song is Finally on YouTube (Newsweek) [5]
    • "Quaid said he was 'honored' to include Dylan's song, revealing that the producers had given him 'the freedom to do any song he wanted to do, whether an original or a cover, and he chose "Don’t Fence Me In."'"
  • Dylan Used Severn Princess Ferry while Touring in 1966 (South Wales Argus) [3]
    • "Dylan travelled the crossing from Aust to Beachley during his 1966 World Tour which stretched from February to May 1966."
  • Joan Baez, the Legend That You Are (Jezebel) [3]
    • "When she did ring up Baez, Barbaro said she told her how she was feeling remorseful about taking part in a story that paints Baez as a supporting character in the life of a 'legend.'"

More On The Recent Tour

  • Rough, Rowdy and as Relevant as Ever (Female First) [3]
    • "The other interesting thing about his show is that there are no gimmicks. No bright, flashy lights, no pyrotechnics and no undulating male and female dancers, which is sadly what today's breed of pop and rock superstars find necessary to inflict us with."
  • Dylan at the Royal Albert Hall (Evening Standard) [3]
    • "It was a minimal, distilled evening for the true believers, for connoisseurs. My date described it as 'like late Auerbach, etched, flinty and fading genius lit up against an almost Beckettian bare stage with just four musicians,' which was so good and so true I told him I would steal it."
  • Dylan Finished What Could be his Last Tour (The Conversation) [3]
    • "But each song was radically reinvented, reworked to Dylan’s ever-changing vision, with some of the songs even being rearranged during his three-day residency at the Albert Hall."
  • At 83, Bob Dylan is at his Best in Years (Financial Review) [3]
    • "There is no teleprompt, and no slip-ups; he is a poet, after all. Why is he the best he’s been in years? Because of his life and his age; because he’s still going; because there’s a tacit expectation that Dylan really sounds quite bad on stage these days, and he doesn’t."
  • Bob's In-Concert Finale? (John’s Substack) [3]
    • "Even he must be constantly amazed by how many people have something to say about him, still."

New Blog Posts

New from fans and other writers

  • Play Me a Song, Mr. Wolfman Bob (Flagging Down The Double E's) [8]
    • "He stood center stage, just a (wolf)man and his harmonica, growling through this gospel number. He sounds like an old bluesman playing a dirty dive bar for five drunks at 2am."
  • Watching The River Flow Pt.5 (Untold Dylan) [8]
    • "Modulations are rare in pop and rock music, and when composers in these genres want to change keys they simply bang us from one key to the next with a jolt. Indeed modulations in Dylan are extremely rare so it is worth pausing for a moment to see what he does."
  • 3 Times: Fever (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • "The song was written by Eddie Cooley and Otis Blackwell – it was apparently Cooley’s idea which he took it to Blackwell and they created the finished article together. It was a number 1 hit in the R&B charts."
  • "Wonder Boys" - Writin' and Teachin' (John’s Substack) [5]
    • "It is an intricate plot interwoven with so many comical complications that you’ll find yourself alternately surprised and delighted, sometimes both at once."
  • Bob Dylan's Thirsty Boots (Peter Stone Brown Archives) [5]
    • "The lead guitar is undoubtedly David Bromberg. Dylan treats the song with the utmost respect singing it gently and beautifully."
  • A Dylan fan film — How Many Roads (Peter Stone Brown Archives) [5]
    • "'Jos de Putter was working on a Bob Dylan fan film. He was in touch with Peter, and Peter wrote him his own outline for what the film could be.'"
  • From Duluth to St. Paul to "Key West" (I Don't Love Nobody) [5]
    • "In Chronicles, Volume 1, Bob tells how he slept in a back room at the Purple Onion on the night before he walked to the highway and began hitching east to New York City in January of 1961."
  • Dylan & Us: Beyond America Pt.4 (Untold Dylan) [3]
    • "Their seventh single, ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ appeared in July 1964, shortly before Bob Dylan came to visit them in their New York hotel."

New Releases & Reviews

News about new music or reviews

  • Bob Dylan: Prophet, Mystic, Poet (Peter Stone Brown Archives) [8]
    • "Prophet, Mystic, Poet is loaded with such revelations and as such is essential reading for any serious Bob Dylan fan. That said, the book is not without an agenda which is made clear from the start, which is to show not only how Judaic tradition and custom, but how much of what is commonly referred to as 'The First,' or 'Old Testament' informs a large part of Dylan’s work."
  • The Double Life of Dylan Vol.2 Pt.7 (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • "Alongside all this, Heylin tells us, complex contractual negotiations were going on in relation to Bob’s future work. And this really is something we need to pause and consider."

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